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Kenny Shiels? Gie me strength. Straight from the Jim Gannon school of management. A absolute loonball, and he made an arse of things at Morton in his last gig. No thank you.

Utd won't make the same mistake again unfortunately. Motherwell 1-3 Dundee Utd Papped out before Christmas again.

Got to agree with the chat on Billy McKinlay. He seems to tick all of the boxes on what we look for in a gaffer. I'd expect his agent to be putting his name forward for the role. I do hope he gets it, I think he would be a great appointment. He would certainly be hungry for it after his Watford experience and i'm sure it'll be a role he'll take with one eye on getting back down south. It's a win-win. Also, completely irrelevant of course, but I stuck a few quid on him when SkyBet had him at 25/1...

It was a pathetic performance.

A slippery slope mate if we're going to be appointing managers based on what school they went to...

2014/15 League Cup - lost to Hamilton R3 2014/15 Europa League - lost to Stjarnan QR2 2013/14 Scottish Cup - lost to Albion Rovers R4 2013/14 Europa League - lost to Kuban Krasnodor QR3 2012/13 Scottish Cup - lost to Aberdeen R4 2012/13 League Cup - lost to Rangers R3 2012/13 Europa League - lost to Levante Playoff Round 2012/13 Champions League - lost to Panathinaikos QR3 All of those we've been papped out at the first possible round. Only one that we've advanced was the 2013/14 League Cup where we beat Livington in R3 before losing to Aberdeen in the QF. So, counting all of those games (including Europe), it's 1 win in the last 15 Cup games.

Just clocked an interesting stat on Twitter. "Motherwell have been knocked out in the first possible round in 8 of the last 9 cup competitions they have been involved in"

Jack Leitch was the only one to get pass marks in my opinion.

I'd suggest spending a couple of grand a week on an injury-prone 30-something isn't high on our list of priorites right now considering we are beyond skint.

I've read the last couple of pages, and to be fair, my points have been raised by others, but i'll say them again. How in the name of fuck did Josh Law stay on that park for 120 minutes? He done nothing all game. Not the "actually done a few things, but me mostly done nothing, nothing", he genuinely offered fuck all. He's not even 1/10th of the player his brother is. Last minute of the game, it's going to penalties, and we've got 2 strikers on the bench. Why not bring one of them on to take a penalty? Speaking of the penalties, has anyone found our captain yet? He seemed to go into hiding after the coin toss. McManus & Leitch went up to take a penalty, why was it then left to a substitute defender to hit one when it got to sudden death? McCall must be cursed in cup competitions.

I'd disagree with you there Gazzy. In 10/20 years time, would you rather be talking about a glorious day at Hampden seeing your team lift the Scottish Cup or reminding everyone of those couple of months where we got hammered by the Cypriot Cup winners and the runners-up of the Bulgarian Premier Division?

I'd assume we'll take more than Accies do, as usual.

If that's true, then that just sums up everything that's wrong with Motherwell FC at the moment. A club that in previous seasons have budgeted for Top 6 finishes and cup quarter-final appearences, all of a sudden feel a bit shaky about a part-time outfit, over 180 minutes of football?

Nonsense. Are you telling me that the club wouldn't have banked on us beating a Welsh or Icelandic part-time outfit over 2 legs? McCall has fucked us over well and truly with his diabolical tactics. There's only 1 place to point the finger at if we don't make any more signings and that's at the management team.

What kinda fitba player is called Lionel?

Did you watch a different Kallum Higginbotham to me last season? A decent player, found his level at the bottom end of the "Premiership" though.

If only McFadden, Sutton & Vigurs had played, we could have won tonight...

UEFA will keep the big teams big and the wee teams wee. We'll try again next time.

There's optimism and then there's realism. Correct decision by Stuart McCall. He was vindicated last year, here's hoping he is again come Sunday night.

Send the youth team. The tie is over. Full focus should be on getting 3 points against Aberdeen next Sunday.

Brian McLean is Ross County bound. But aye, at Fir Park? Naw.

Why would anyone pay £1m for McFadden when they could have taken him for nothing this summer and can get him for nothing next summer?

We finished 19 points ahead of Hearts last year. They will start 15 points behind everyone else this season and won't have Webster, Zaliukas, Sutton & Ngoo plus others. Despite us losing a few, there's no fucking danger we'll be anywhere near a relegation battle.

Thank fuck for that

Dougie Imrie at Motherwell? Someone's at it.